From at least the late 1770s MS
and her family were on terms of close friendship with Eliza
and William Hayley
; Mariana's earliest extant letter to Eliza Hayley is dated 22 December 1780. William...
Friends, Associates
Charlotte Smith
William Hayley
helped CS
publish her first book. Her biographer Loraine Fletcher thinks she faked a sudden attack of illness, in the wake of her husband's imprisonment and release, in order to drop in at...
Friends, Associates
Anna Seward
Her relationship with the fashionable poet and author William Hayley
was another in which each party flattered the other. She kept up with Hayley's wife, Eliza
(who was also a writer, less ambitious and less...
Textual Production
Charlotte Smith
It was small but handsome. Thomas Stothard
did two of the illustrations. His design for sonnet 12 (Written on the Sea Shore.—October 1784—the month in which she crossed the Channel with her children...
Textual Production
Anne-Thérèse de Lambert
Two essays of a proto-feminist tendency by ATL
were translated into English by Eliza Hayley
as Essays on Friendship and Old-Age.